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8000 Year Old Artefacts Found in Rahmatabad Tepe
The second season of excavations at the Rahmatabad Tepe in Fars Province yields a great number of stone tools and animal bones belonging to the sixth millennium BC.
HTML clipboardCHTN- An archaeological team led by Mohammad-Hossein
Azizi has identified the strata of the pre-Pottery Neolithic A and the
pre-Pottery Neolithic B ages at this site which is located near the Bolaghi
Valley.
The team found layers of burned earth, ashes, and compact earth in the
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A stratum, which is two meters thick, Azizi told the
Persian service of CHN on Sunday.
A number of stone tools and a compact mass of chippings were discovered in
the strata, he added.
Samples taken from the layers have been removed for precise dating and
further analysis, he stressed.
The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B stratum is 1.5 meters thick.
Archeologists had actually discovered a number of buff colored pots
bearing geometrical motifs.
Tools made of stones and bones, thin pieces of obsidian, mud-baked tokens,
a number of figurines, and seals have also been found in the layer.
In addition, several kilns along with clay instruments used inside them as
thermometers have been discovered.
The kilns are rectangular and each comprises a fireplace and a platform on
which pottery can be placed.
The Rahmatabad Tappeh was also one of the major centers for the mass
production of large stone tools.
However, a number of shards from the Bakun period have been discovered in
the mortar used in the construction of a mud-brick Achaemenid structure at the
mound.
The Rahmatabad prehistoric industrial site was discovered during the first
season of excavations in 2006 and a large number of ancient shards and kilns
were unearthed.
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